Tarantula A.D. a band who meld classical techniques of
composition with rock and heavy metal elements.You can’t
fault Tarantula A.D. for talent. Each of the group’s three members
— Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, and Gregory Rogove — play
multiple instruments passionately if not always virtuosically. The
songs on the album combine chamber-music sounds of cello, violin
and piano with the more familiar rock sounds of guitar, bass, and
drums in multi-tracked layers, with complex interplay of
instrumentation and thematic elaboration, so that it’s rare the
music sounds as thin as a trio.

They have collaborated with:Sierra Casady from CoCoRosie, Alexander
and Damon McMahon from Inouk, and Devendra Banhart.

Häxan
This new Midlands based ‘post DOOM’ ‘ trio mix crushing dreamy
soundscapes,
eerie folk and psychedelic slabs of guitar to illustrate their
own
apocalyptic vision of a decaying natural world. Influenced by
everything
from Neurosis and Jesu to Agalloch and Slint, they utilise rising
chords and
simple picked guitars to hypnotising effect.